Though he starts out merely kidding Luke about taking an interest in Leia (“Do you think a princess and a guy like me-”), by the end of the movie, one imagines the interest could become real. Just before they swing across a pit, she gives him a quick kiss “ for luck.”Īnd then there’s Han. He’s clearly infatuated with her (I always enjoyed the fact that even in stormtrooper armor, you can see the bashfulness in Luke’s tilt of the head when he finally meets Leia in her prison cell). Luke is recruited into the Rebellion through seeing an image of a beautiful damsel in distress. The original Star Wars movie (the title later changed, for those of us too young to remember, to A New Hope) did suggest a conventional romantic development-although with some ambiguity. This fact strikes me as remarkable, and it’s puzzling how to account for it. Not one romantic combination in the entire series leaves us relatively content with a couple’s life story, despite the number of such combinations that are teased over the course of the movies. Do you recall how many successful romances, in the sense of “happy ever after” (“HEA”) endings, we see in the entire Star Wars saga?
So it’s not unreasonable to expect a sweeping space opera like this to include, as a minor element, at least some romantic achievements. Even James Bond movies always end with a sex scene.
Sometimes more than once I’m looking at you, Indiana Jones. But adventure stories, particularly of the swashbuckling sort that Star Wars set out to revive, frequently do end up with a pair of characters getting together romantically. The one I want to consider here has to do with love stories. There are, of course, a lot of things one might say about the nine-movie saga.
(Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing about four separate spinoffs from the ending of TROS-for reasons discussed below-as long as there are NO MORE DEATH STARS.) But it appears we’ve seen a conclusion to the main story.
That universe is already expanding ( for the second time) into side stories and prequels and it’s quite possible that we’ll see more stories set after the end of TROS, even including some of the same main characters. We can consider the main storyline or central arc of Star Wars complete. So we should now be able to discuss the plot freely, though I will hang out aĪnd we are now in a position, after forty-odd years, to reach conclusions about the story as a whole. I’m going to assume that by now, everybody who wants to has seen Star Wars IX, The Rise of Skywalker (“TROS”).
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